INFANT DROWNED AT PATEA
WANGANUI, August 9. When she- fell into the Patea river near the beach this afternoon, Leah Margaret Simmons, aged 2J years, was drowned. The child was plrying with others on the bank of the river, near her parents* home, and although the body was soon recovered, resuscitation was tried without success.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22167, 10 August 1937, Page 10
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